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146 pp.
| Delacorte |
September, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-385-32716-1$$14.95
(4)
YA
In addition to Carolina's typical teenage problems, such as a so-called best friend's trying to steal her boyfriend, she lives with the grief and guilt brought on by her older sister's and father's deaths in a plane crash a year earlier. While the first-person narration and other characters' voices sound artificial at times, Carolina's situation is moving and gracefully presented.